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Lisa mersky's avatar

I love words, and I love learning new words, and I love the words you are illustrating! MuchasGracias!

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Tig Beswick's avatar

Adularescence and Schiller - are the two words used by gemmologists to describe that shimmer seen inside moonstones.

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Grant Snider's avatar

Wow! I hadn't heard these before.

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Tig Beswick's avatar

They're very specific to Gemmology which is a specialised branch of Geology. Not even geologists know some of our terms :)

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Dee Rambeau's avatar

Petrichor. Particularly in the desert. Wondrous. Now I have the word. 🙏

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lady xanax's avatar

mellifluous words ngl

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Michelle C's avatar

Petrichor is my favorite word and favorite smell. Love hearing about these beautiful words that we have largely lost from our everyday vocabulary.

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Naomi de Vries's avatar

Love this!

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Alynne Rose Poetry's avatar

Apricity, such a beautiful word!

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Jason McBride's avatar

I love this entire concept! I love the idea of an illustrated dictionary or vivacious and voluptuous words!

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Saumya Sharma's avatar

The beautiful images make learning so enjoyable ❤️

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Kristen Malcolm's avatar

I'm a Word Nerd, and I LOVE this! I really like petrichor. I wonder if there is a similar word to describe the smell of rain on pavement.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Galoshes

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Tabi's avatar

Adularescence my new word.

Adulerescencia en español. Loooveeee

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Sneaky Footprint's avatar

I absolutely love your art ever since I received one of your books (I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf) as a gift. I can't wait to buy your poetry comics as well!

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Grant Snider's avatar

Nice to hear that, thank you!

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Freya Rohn's avatar

I am so happy to find your work--words are so full of archaeological meanings, hidden beneath the common use, it's like they truly are magic spells waiting for us to recover. Hooray for other word lovers! 💜

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Sheila's avatar

Apricity is my new favourite word.

Petrichor is a favourite smell! 🌧️

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JQ Rose's avatar

Petrichor. Hmm I need to use that some place in my vegetable gardening book! Thanks. Wishing you success with your upcoming release!!

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lady xanax's avatar

give ‘schadenfreude’ a try- i hope i’ve spelt right

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Grant Snider's avatar

That was on my high school vocab list, great word!

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